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Hello! Cambodia
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My thesis project explored travel guides as vessels for expressing information connotatively. I believe that numbers or statistics cannot sufficiently convey what one can or will find at a site, and that it is the integration of numbers with more connotative materials that allows for true communciation of meaning. Thus, I developed a number of formal and function techniques to give a richness and specificity to the sites of the region.

First, I transposed a historical timeline of Cambodia on top of my own two-week personal narrative traveling through the country. Then, I interwove travel information and statistical data about the country. Finally, I created space for the user to insert their own narrative. This included an illustrated notebook, as well as detachable sections for each city that could be rearranged to fit a different journey.

Another significant concept I investigated was the possibility of using patterning, an ancient technique of graphic design, as a means to learn language. The visual repetition matched functionally and formally with phonetic repetition.

Instructors //
Lorraine Wild, Green Dragon Office
Michael Worthington, Counterpoint
Ed Fella, Louise Sandhaus

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